Who is Mary Stark

An epitaph on a tombstone: “Alleged name Mary Stark. Died January 1, 1966. An Unknown Life.”

Of the three people most closely touched by Mary Stark, one is a young girl who learns—through her—what it means to be haunted. The second is an attendant in a mental hospital where Mary is a patient who to claims to know him; in searching for her in his memory, and in the record of his life as it is written or remembered by others, he finds clues to both their identities. And the third is a student ...